Fangfang Wang 

Associate Professor 
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute


Contact Information 

 

Unity Hall 278 
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609 
Email: fwang4@wpi.edu 


Education 

 

Ph.D., Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2009  
M.S., Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2006 
B.S., Mathematics, Nankai University, China, June 2004 


Research Interests 

 

Time Series Analysis, Spatial Statistics, Spatial Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, and Risk Management  


Selected Publications

 

T. F. Ma, F. Wang, J. Zhu, A. Ives, and K. Lewińska (2022): Scalable Semiparametric Spatio-temporal Regression for Large Data Analysis. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, accepted. 

T. F. Ma, F. Wang, and J. Zhu (2022): On Generalized Latent Factor Modeling and Inference for High-Dimensional Binomial Data. Biometrics, accepted.

A. Ives, L. Zhu, F. Wang, J. Zhu, C. Morrow, and V. Radeloff (2021): Statistical inference for trends in spatiotemporal data. Remote Sensing of Environment 266, 112678.

F. Wang and C. Ma (2019): -symmetric Vector Random Fields. Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 129(7): 2466-2484.

F. Wang and H. Wang (2018): Modeling Non-stationary Multivariate Time Series of Counts via Common Factors. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 80 (4), 769-791.

F. Wang (2016): An Unbiased Measure of Integrated Volatility in the Frequency Domain. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 37(2), 147-164.
X. Chen, E. Ghysels and F. Wang (2015): HYBRID-GARCH: A Generic Class of Models for Volatility Predictions using Mixed Frequency Data. Statistica Sinica,
25, 759-786.

F. Wang (2015): Spectral Analysis of Quadratic Variation in the Presence of Market Microstructure Noise. Statistics and Its Interface, 8, 305-319. 
F. Wang and E. Ghysels (2014): Econometric Analysis of Volatility Component Models. Econometric Theory, 31, 1-32. 
E. Ghysels and F. Wang (2014): Moment-Implied Densities: Properties and Applications. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 32(1), 88-111. 
F. Wang (2014): Optimal Design of Fourier Estimator in the Presence of Microstructure Noise. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 76, 708-722. 

 


Teaching 

 

Spring 2023C 
MA 464X: Introduction to Time Series Analysis